Most of us don't daily drive our mustangs, so what do you drive when you're not driving your mustang?

I bought this last fall as more or less a winter beater but I really kinda like it. Big, comfy, reliable, 30 mpg, other than being a gm vehicle, what's not to like?

How in the WORLD does that big monster get 30 mpg @New2me? Downhill? Tailwind?

I daily drive a little tiny light weight '98 Saturn SL with 'economy gearset' 5 sp manual transmission, picked it up last year with only 55k miles so 'nearly new' and runs well, but according to my iphone's calculator, I struggle to get 30 mpg....

Other daily is a '02 GMC Sierra 2500 HD Duramax/Allison lifted on 35's, that one DEFF doesn't get half of 30 mpg!

His Buick's mileage doesn't surprise me.
Back in the day when I was working for GM corporate I had a company car (1997 Olds Cutless SL)
that regularly hit 32 mpg. Also had the coldest AC I can recall for an early 134a vehicle. On a separate
gauge, I had the interior down around 34 degrees in the middle of the desert one summer.

It hasn't looked this good in a while. Quite a while. I have since swapped to some nicer BBS style wheels though. Beat upon heavily. Has touched upon 61 mpg (turbodiesel).

Bought with a dead 5.0. I pulled the 5.0 out of my '67, re-EFI'd it, and shoved it in. Yuck. Yanked it out in favor of a 5.8. Much better. One tire fires got to be an annoyance so I put in a 3.55 Trac-Loc. Better. Headers and full dual exhausts , even better. Spends it's time equally dividepgd between idling down the road or being terribly abused, overloaded, puling stuff or some such.

Two years ago I gave a whole $200 for generic little white '97 Caravan with no reverse. Bought a "core" transmission for $20, combined the two and made one good one. Intended to roll it over for a small profit or something. But it's just too handy. Everybody drives it. I tell them "Don't worry if it blows up, I can crush it and still turn a profit!" But everything works on it and it just keeps going. After seeing it survive the first year I actually started taking care of it. Some. No pictures, everybody knows what they look like.

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